CONSTRUCTION PLANS. Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Staffan Edén has taken over as Project Head of the University’s development of Medicinareberget. The project gives the University the opportunity to create the environment we have always talked about, he explains. The Medicinareberget 2020 development project recently entered its third phase. The previous Project Director, Margareta Wallin Peterson decided to return to her role of professor at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. “It…
Strategic Planner Mårten Tiselius: “Medicinareberget’s future is governed by the operation’s needs”
CONSTRUCTION PLANS. The institutes’ needs determine what facilities and buildings are needed at Medicinareberget. That is the message from the University’s new Strategic Planner, Mårten Tiselius. “GU’s Project Manager, Anna Skoog and I can serve as a support for the process before us, but it is up to the institutions to tell us how they want to proceed,” he says. The University is a tenant on the premises, as…
Seven researchers in Gothenburg received a grant from The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation
GRANTS. Seven researchers in Gothenburg was endorsed for their applications to The Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation. One of the researchers who receive grants are Anders Ståhlberg, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine. His research projects was awarded SEK 600 000 over two years to develop an accurate method to monitor treatment and detect relapses in patients with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The method is based on analyzing…
Vice-Dean with quality, collaboration and consensus on the agenda
MANAGEMENT ROLE. As the Vice Dean for ALF issues, Christina Jern seeks to highlight ALF issues and strengthen collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital and the Västra Götaland region. ‘We must collaborate and pull together to achieve a good showing in the national quality evaluation that will form the basis for distribution of ALF funds between seats of learning,’ she says. The agreement concerning medical education and research in health and…
Architectural competition for Building 123 commenced
BUILDING PLANS. On October 30, a contest for the design of the planned buildings by Per Dubbsgatan started. According to plan, Building 1 should stand at Sahlgrenska University Hospital site, Building two should be built across Per Dubbsgatan and the planned location for Building 3 is on Medicinareberget. The contest will determine which architectural firms that will work with the project. The buildnings that according to plan are to connect…